29 Facts About Jetty Rae

Jetty Rae was born on January 13,1987 and is an unsigned American indie folk singer-songwriter whose career began in Kona, Hawaii, but now resides in Michigan.

Jetty Rae's music has been used by companies such as Microsoft, Petco, Amazon.

Jetty Rae's album Drowning in Grain peaked at No 130 on the CMJ Top 200 Radio charts.

Jetty Rae was born in Springfield, Oregon, on January 13,1987.

Jetty Rae was raised by her parents, Tyvin and Kathleen, in an art-friendly family near the mountain town of Happy Camp, California, before moving for a short time to Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Jetty Rae's parents were missionaries which required them to move often before finally settling down in Charlevoix, Michigan, where Jetty Rae attended Charlevoix High School.

Jetty's mother started a theater group, called the Ragamuffins, in which Jetty held many roles.

Jetty Rae was initially introduced to songwriting through her affinity for poetry.

Jetty Rae eventually attended the Youth With a Mission discipleship training school in Kona, Hawaii where she partook in 3 mission trips over two years to China, Fiji, and Australia respectively.

Jetty Rae enjoys a love of both cooking and makeup, citing them as art forms themselves.

Jetty Rae has three children, a son named Beck and two daughters, Rowin and Jude.

Jetty Rae adopted the name of her paternal grandmother Jetty Rae Thom, who was a full-blooded Karuk Native American.

Jetty Rae took her grandmother's namesake out of admiration and respect.

Jetty Rae, who considers herself a blue-collar musician, attributes the start of her musical career to the death of her grandfather, which prompted her to write her first original song "Sunshine".

Jetty Rae says she first began writing and playing music to process her feelings but now uses her music to "serve her listeners and audience".

Jetty Rae's first show was at Durty Jake's bar in Kona, Hawaii.

In 2009, Jetty Rae was chosen to play at the grand opening of JetBlue's JFK Airport terminal as the grand prize winner of a competition from OurStage.

Since becoming affiliated with NACA in 2011 Jetty Rae has been chosen as a showcasing artist four times: Northern Plains 2011, Mid-West 2012, Mid-America 2012, and Northern Plains 2013.

One reviewer compared her voice to those of Norah Jones and Amy Winehouse Jetty Rae's style has been compared to a female version of Jack Johnson, while others have noted her similarity to Jennifer Knapp.

Situationally, Jetty Rae cites her living in her renovated Airstream caravan as a major influence as well as "everyday hopes and heartbreak".

Jetty Rae has released a number of albums and singles in her career:.

Jetty Rae's second album is an EP and was recorded and produced in Nashville, Tennessee; it was released on August 20,2010.

Jetty Rae's first co-produced album was released on July 1,2011.

The album is considered a lullaby album, and Jetty Rae cites it as one of her most commercially successful despite its low budget.

Jetty Rae cites the source material for this album as briographical and the inspiration coming from grief she experienced after the loss of her 1st child Ella Jetty Rae.

Jetty Rae cites this track as being notable in that it's the result of a single, uninterrupted vocal recording.

Jetty Rae herself describes the album "victorious" in theme and biographical in content.

Jetty Rae herself cites the inspiration for this song stemming from a friend's "family drama" from which she created a larger-than-life character to be the subject of this song, originally penned as a joke.

The track has a running time of 3:28 and Jetty Rae cites the inspiration for the song as coming from her younger brother who asked her to write a song about someone who is cursed.